Re: A policy question

Alex Rousskov wrote:

>
> FWIW, the above drweb behavior is compliant with ICAP. Conection:
> keep-alive
> does not (and cannot) guarantee that the connection will remain open
> after
> the ICAP response is sent.

OK.

>
> Not using persistent connections with a given ICAP server would also
> be compliant with ICAP. Persistent connections are optional.

I made a first implementation uisng an extra option to icap_service
option in squid.conf:

        icap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
[keep_alive=on|off]

But after that I spent time to correct some reported bugs and I did not
finish it.
I must look on it again and make some clean-ups.

>
> Have you tried asking drweb folks whether there is something Squid can do
> to prevent them from closing the connection?

No I did not.
But the DRweb team had post a patch to squid mailing list
(http://www.mail-archive.com/squid-dev@squid-cache.org/msg02325.html)
for squid-icap in which had modify the code to always closing the
connection.
So, I believe that drweb-icapd requires closing the connection.

Regards,
  Christos
Received on Mon Apr 04 2005 - 13:04:31 MDT